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Stamping vs Overstrike - What's the difference?

stamping | overstrike |

As verbs the difference between stamping and overstrike

is that stamping is present participle of lang=en while overstrike is to overreach oneself while striking.

As nouns the difference between stamping and overstrike

is that stamping is a method of manufacturing using dies and extreme pressure while overstrike is a coin that has been overstruck, i.e. coined more than once.

stamping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A method of manufacturing using dies and extreme pressure.
  • A part made by such a method.

    • overstrike

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete, reflexive) To overreach oneself while striking.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
  • *:For as he in his rage him overstrooke , / He, ere he could his weapon backe repaire, / His side all bare and naked overtooke, / And with his mortal steel quite through the body strooke.
  • To cover up (a design, mark etc.) by stamping another on top of it; to superimpose a mark or logo on (a coin, stamp, etc.).
  • To strike (something) too hard.

    • Noun

  • (numismatics) A coin that has been overstruck, i.e. coined more than once.
  • (typography) The printing of one character over another, as -'' on top of ''L'' to produce ''? .
  • (computing, uncountable) overtype (feature where input replaces existing characters instead of being inserted before them)

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